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... That the Annual Pension of the Lower Marquisate,
payable to the Upper Marquisate, according to former Custom, shall by virtue
of the present Treaty be intirely taken away and annihilated; and that
for the future nothing shall be pretended or demanded on that account,
either for the time past or to come. ...
... As soon as after the Ratification of Peace, Three
Hundred Thousand Rixdollars shall be paid to Madam, the Landgravine, she
shall give up Nuys, and shall only retain Cuesfeldt and Newhaus; but yet
so as that the Garison of Nuys shall not be thrown into the other two Places,
nor nothing demanded on that account; and the Garisons of Cuesfeldt shall
not exceed the Number of Six Hundred Foot and Fifty Horse. That if within
the term of nine Months, the whole Sum be not paid to Madam the Landgravine,
not only Cuesfeldt and Newhaus shall remain in her Hands till the full
Payment, but also for the remainder, she shall be paid Interest at Five
per Cent. and the Treasurers and Collectors of the Bayliwicks appertaining
to the abovesaid Arch-bishopricks, Bishopricks and Abby, bordering on the
Principality of Hesse, shall oblige themselves by Oath to Madam the Landgravine,
that out of the annual Revenues, they shall yearly pay the Interest of
the remaining Sum notwithstanding the Prohibitions of their Masters. If
the Treasurers and Collectors delay the Payment, or alienate the Revenues,
Madam the Landgravine shall have liberty to constrain them to pay, by all
sorts of means, always saving the Right of the Lord Proprietor of the Territory. ...
... That as well as general as particular Diets, the
free Towns, and other States of the Empire, shall have decisive Votes;
they shall, without molestation, keep their Regales, Customs, annual Revenues,
Libertys, Privileges to confiscate, to raise Taxes, and other Rights, lawfully
obtain’d from the Emperor and Empire, or enjoy’d long before these Commotions,
with a full Jurisdiction within the inclosure of their Walls, and their
Territorys: making void at the same time, annulling and for the future
prohibiting all Things, which by Reprisals, Arrests, stopping of Passages,
and other prejudicial Acts, either during the War, under what pretext soever
they have been done and attempted hitherto by private Authority, or may
hereafter without any preceding formality of Right be enterpris’d. As for
the rest, all laudable Customs of the sacred Roman Empire, the fundamental
Constitutions and Laws, shall for the future be strictly observ’d, all
the Confusions which time of War have, or could introduce, being remov’d
and laid aside. ...
... The Emperor shall likewise declare, That within
the Investiture of the Dutchy of Mantua are comprehended the Castles of
Reygioli and Luzzare, with their Territorys and Dependencys, the Possession
whereof the Duke of Guastalla shall be oblig’d to render to the Duke of
Mantua, reserving to himself nevertheless, the Right of Six Thousand Crowns
annual Pension, which he pretends to, for which he may sue the Duke before
his Imperial Majesty. ...